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- The Qurʼān: preservation and compilation
What the ḥadīth, sīra, and classical Muslim scholarship tell us about how the Qurʼān was collected, standardized, and transmitted — including the seven aḥruf, the qirāʾāt, and what early manuscripts add to the picture.
6 questions
- The Qurʼān and science
Verses commonly cited in connection with science — embryology, the Big Bang, the splitting of the moon, the origin of iron — read alongside classical tafsīr and what historians and scientists actually say.
6 questions
- The Prophet Muhammad's life and example
Sīra and ḥadīth on the Prophet's life and conduct — including episodes Muslim scholars themselves have written about and discussed across the centuries.
13 questions
- Women, marriage, and family in Islam
What the Qurʼān and ḥadīth say about marriage, polygamy, divorce, and the rights of women — read through classical fiqh and modern Muslim scholarship.
3 questions
- Jihad, abrogation, and freedom of belief
What jihad actually means in the Qurʼān and ḥadīth, the doctrine of naskh (abrogation), and the rulings on apostasy — including where modern Muslim scholars have engaged the classical fiqh.
5 questions
- Islamic ethics: slavery, captives, and rules of war
How the Qurʼān and classical fiqh addressed slavery, captives, and the conduct of war — and how Muslim scholars from the early period to today have read, applied, or restricted those rulings.
3 questions
- The Qurʼān and previous scripture
What the Qurʼān itself says about the Torah, Gospel, and Injīl — and how classical Muslim commentators understood those passages before the later doctrine of taḥrīf developed.
16 questions
- Jesus (ʿĪsā) in the Qurʼān
Who Jesus is in the Qurʼān, the unique titles given to him, what the Qurʼān says about his crucifixion (Q 4:157), and the Christian doctrines the Qurʼān engages — Trinity, Sonship, and related questions — read first through Islamic sources.
9 questions
- Reasons people give for becoming Muslim
Common lines of reasoning — cosmological, psychological, demographic, and biographical — laid out clearly so you can weigh each one next to the primary sources.
2 questions